3 Missing North Dakota College Softball Players Found Dead

Three North Dakota college softball players who had been missing since Sunday, were found dead today, after the Jeep they were traveling in was pulled from a pond, police said.

Police said foul play was not suspected in the deaths of the three women.

Searchers told police this afternoon that they found vehicle tracks leading into a pond with oil residue floating on the surface, and a dive team discovered a vehicle in the pond approximately two hours later, Dickinson, N.D., Police Department Lt. Rodney Banyai said.

The dive team investigated and two hours later, a 1997 White Cherokee was pulled from the pond. The three Dickinson State University softball players they had been searching for were found dead in the vehicle, Banyai said.

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Authorities are still investigating what caused the death of the three young women: Kyrstin Gemar, 22, Ashley Neufeld, 21 and Afton Williamson, 20.

A team of divers spent Tuesday searching two lakes for the three missing womenstudents, but found no sign of them.